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I’ll be at the San Diego Comic-Con in July with new Marry Me merchandise, so be sure to stop by booth #1229! The artist of Dreamless, Sarah Ellerton, will also be there, and we’ll be signing copies of the completed Dreamless graphic novel, which you can pre-order now!

Here’s a fun video of Eisu at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con:

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I took your advice and re-adjusted the light in the lamp. How’s it look? Any better?

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Dear readers,

It’s a crazy week. Between prepping for PAX, working ahead on four consecutive Blamimations in preparation for Kris being out of pocket for a month on vacation, the trip I just took to Dallas and a couple other secret projects I can’t talk about yet I’m losing my mind.

Strips are going to go up at odd times. Once I get past PAX weekend and things return to a more normal life cycle, things will return to a more metered pace.

I’m debating posting strips on Mon, Wed and Fri only this week. But I think my conscience will probably get the better of me.

So I ask you, quite humbly, dear reader. To show me mercy during this amazingly stressful week and afford me this erratic schedule. I’m spinning a lot of plates right now and I’m just trying to make sure nothing falls down.

THIS TUESDAY, August 31st. TOMORROW. LISTEN TO ME. THAT IS TOMORROW.

I’ll be a guest on Comic Book Club: LIVE at the People’s Improv Theater in NYC! If you like comics and chuckles, and maybe even me, this could be a thrilling evening for you. Comics writer, Jim McCann will also be there!

8:00 PM
The People’s Improv Theater
154 W. 29th St.
New York City, NY I don’t know the zipcode. You don’t need it.

September 11th-12th, I’ll be at the SMALL PRESS EXPO in Bethesda, Maryland. I’ll be hanging at the TopatoCo table if you’d like to get a sweet glimpse of my face when you’re there. I’ll be signing books, and the smiles are free. High fives are given at manager’s discretion.

EDIT/I NEARLY FORGOT: It may also intrest you that the same weekend, hardly a minute’s drive down the road, Intervention Con is holding it’s debut appearance! If you like webcomics, animes, games, internet fun stuff and the like, and are traveling to SPX, I encourage you to check out Intervention Con as well. It’s two shows worth of guests and programming for the price of… well for the price of two shows. But it’s still just one trip!

-Christopher

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And the dangers mount and mount as our heroes press on! Now they’ve encountered not only a guard who is alive and awake, but a guard who is alive and awake with a guard dog. Fortunately, the dog was neither alive nor awake - but who knows what might be lurking behind the next corner? Perhaps a guard who is alive and awake with a guard dog which is also alive and awake? … Unlikely. That old adage about one human year equaling seven dog years might not be precisely true, but WW II still happened so long ago that there’s non chance that there are any surviving canine veterans…veteran canines..verterinaries…whatever, you know what I mean: old dogs of war. Of course Col. Muller tried his hand at breeding more guard dogs to make up for the losses, but that didn’t work out - while his dogs had enough offspring with each other and the various mutts of the island, without that missing stamp he could not officially draft any of the puppies for the Wehrmacht service.

And yeah, that guard is armed (with the production’s only rifle from the appropriate period) so he could - theoretically - shoot at our friends. He won’t, though, because he is not a rifleman-guard, he is a doghandler-guard. In order to shoot, he would first have to acquire certification in a different combat specialization, and I doubt his eyes are still good enough to pass the gunnery exam. He is only carrying the rifle as a decorative accessory to his uniform - if it was in view, you could see a big “D” for “decorative” carved into the butt of his rifle. >_> Plus, he’s preoccupied with worries about his dog. Fido is uncharacteristically lethargic today…and just a short while ago - seems like it was only yesterday, when they left Berlin for WW II, he was so energetic and bouncy…

For the time being, Zorba has taken the lead of the little group - he and all the other fishermen in the region have so long lived in fear of the Nazis of Toblerone mountain that he is almost dizzy with enthusiasm at the surprising easiness and speed at which they are taking the stronghold.

Panel five is another monument to editor Scissorhand’s subtle intercutting-before-revelation, but also serves as a useful reminder that the boat is still there at the beach, halfway buried in the sand. The way their attack on the mountain has gone up to now, having their boat stolen is actually one of their more serious worries. (Not that any but the most hopelessly desperate of pirates would ever get the idea to steal Zorba’s boat.)

More on Thursday.

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For a quick overview of the main characters, check out this strip

A comic blah blah blah Tony killed a man while Wes had laser eyes. Also thanks to our buddy Chris P. for help on this comic.

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Vol.III, page 75. FanExpo was awesome, but I've got lots of tshirts left over - want one?

Update: It looks like someone just coined the word “cocktionary.” One would assume this is some sort of cock dictionary, or perhaps a dictionary of cocks.

Dallas Animefest is this Weekend! Come see me, Shortpacked and Two Lumps (plus a bunch of cat-girls and such) all Labor Day Weekend. We will be doing a Webcomic’s panel every day.

It’s Fri Sept 3rd – Mon Sept 6th, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion Tower.

These words, among others, were added to the Oxford English Dictionary, which has abandoned a print edition in favor of an online only format, this year: chillax, bromance, vuvuzela, tweetup, de-friend, frenemy, staycation, steampunk and freemium. That’s right, you are one of the privileged few who were alive to witness the English Language actually BECOME The Internet. Congratulations to us all.

How long will it be until dictionaries are divided by “standard,” “rhyming” and “sexting” editions? I don’t care if the print edition of the OED is dead. As Josh points out in panel one (quoting Sir Egon Spangler), “Print is dead.” It’s more the idea that any dumbass thing we start saying on the interweb (a word that was also added to the OED this year) just magically enters the canon of the English language. Lame, English speaking world. Super lame.

COMMENTERS: Please invent a word or word-mashup and give it’s definition and at least one example of proper usage. The dumbest word will be officially added into my vocabulary.

• Oxford Dictionary Goes Online. Do You Really Care?
• R.I.P the OED: As the world’s greatest dictionary goes out of print, why it spells disaster for everyone who loves words
• Chillax! Bromance! It Must Be New-Words-in-the-Dictionary Day!

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Tags: firefly, language, oxford english dictionary, scifi, serenity, star trek, the internet

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The Warehouse has got to be one of the silliest webcomics out there. Check it out if you like your humour daft as a brush.

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Big shout out to all the Mueslims out there. Yo, sufis!

APOLOGY: It has never been my intention as the author of Jesus & Mo to hurt the feelings of anyone, or to single out any group of people for attack. I now understand that this strip could be construed as doing both of those things. For this reason, I am compelled to apologise for any offence this cartoon may have caused to the muesli-eating community.

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